· Private foundation
Jado Fund
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k19 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $90,081 |
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $25,227 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTI | $20,135 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $20,000 |
| CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| MONTGOMERY ACADEMY | $13,036 |
| FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL AL | $8,000 |
| HUNTINGTON COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| MACOA | $6,000 |
| MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,204 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $5,001 |
| MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH | $3,606 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RIREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $199k · revenue +22%
- TMTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY3× · 2017–2019 · $111k · revenue +27%
- ASALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL3× · 2017–2019 · $78k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- FFFISHERS' FARM CHARITABLEone grant, 2017 · $6k
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +69%
- HMHOOD MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The mission of the alabama farmers federation, a nation's leading farm organization, is to ensure unlimited opportunities for our rural and agricultural community, through active, well-informed members, emphasing education, research,…
To advocate for and provide educational opportunitiesin the arts
The alabama broadcasters association (the association) is the official voice of the broadcasting industry in alabama. we are dedicated to protecting and enhancing broadcasting, and promoting the professional status of our members.the aba…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the water works industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Dance Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Refugees International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WRITERS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Landa Fund · We3 Fund · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · Crum Family Charitable Foundation · The Wool Family Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jado Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.